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Students approaching their cherished graduation with a dream of being dressed picture perfect but facing financial challenges are being offered a chance to have their special shining moment through the first-ever Gowns for Grads Gala.

With the price of oil remaining low — it hit its lowest point in 11 years last week — the year ahead is not going to be an easy one for the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group (SPOG), said its executive director.

The trunk is not overly large, being only 29 inches at its highest point. The exterior is tin-covered, although the metal has darkened to a mottled brown. There are two rows of wooden slats around the sides, five on the rounded top.

Construction on Mountain View County's new $2.

Calls for service to the Mountain View County operational services department were down markedly in 2015 compared with 2014, the policies and priorities committee heard during its recent regularly scheduled meeting.

The new year is stacking up to be a busy time for Mountain View County, with numerous projects started in 2015 continuing in 2016, and other new projects getting underway, says Reeve Bruce Beattie.

Mountain View County councillor Duncan Milne has been appointed as the municipality's representative on the Didsbury Municipal Library Expansion Project committee. The move came during the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

I was a writer of lists most of my life, even as a teen. To remind myself of what I felt I needed to accomplish on my time off, to keep assignments organized, to keep on track with my duties at home.

Mountain View County will extend an offer to its urban municipal partners to finance the $425,636.

Half way into the school year, the Chinook's Edge School Board is looking ahead to a busy 2016. “We have some capital projects that are coming to fruition,” said Colleen Butler, chair of the Chinook's Edge School Board.